Li Lian's nerve calmed with the hand that firmly yet gently clasped with her fingers. She waited for the calls to go through and when a sound of click passed to her ears, her eyes beamed.
"Hello?" Breathing the one words off her lips she waited for her grandfather's voice for it to come.
"Li... Rian?" a surprise was evident on the Old Master's voice. He then broke to a wide smile and jerked off from the bed to repeat his words again gently, "Li Rian."
At first he doubted her voice thinking that it was perhaps only his thought because he missed his granddaughter too much but it wasn't so, Li Lian did called him and he could barely contain his happiness. Kei who had passed the phone to the Old Master stood with his eyes widened in surprise from the name that was called by the Old Master.
"Grandfather." Li Lian called, her raven eyes glazed as the light beside her and Li Jun Wei reflected against her eyes. There were many things she had to say to her grandfather, her apologizes that she knew her grandfather would short say that it was fine and her grateful words for she knew he had done everything for her sake. But the words she could squeeze out from her heart was, "I missed you."
The Old Master chuckled, their heart was filled with warmth with the little words they had just said to greet each other. "I missed you to. Shun, Shin, and Kei we all miss you. Are you alright there?"
Li Lian intensely nodded even when the Old Master couldn't see her face. "How are you too grandpa? Are you alright? Don't work too much take rest in between too."
"Haha, you worry too much I am perfectly in health! I'm not some old man who would go and die that easily. You and Kei worry about me too much." replied the Old Master where Kei gave him a pointed look that he placed his one finger over his lips to warn him from talking tattling anything that he didn't want Li Lian to hear.
"But you are old." Li Lian rebuked to giggle.
"I'm not old, I'm only seventy five year old."
"That what old is grandpa." replied Li Lian. "Is Kei there too?" she asked.
"Kei?" Kei smiled brightly at the thought that he would talk with Li Lian but his smile fell when he heard the Old Master's next word. "He is already sleeping. You know his principle in life. don't you? Sleep at nine wake up at five." The Old Master replied.
Li Lian recalled how Kei had always take proper sleep at the times he scheduled and knew how he had never missed the scheduled sleep and time to wake up and agreed, "That's true."
"Right?" The Old Master's shoulder shakes when he laughed. For a moment then, his smile died down, "Hearing your voice means, Jun Wei had told you everything?"
"Yes," she looked up to meet his eyes, "I heard of the new term Akasaka Family gave and what happened in Japan. Jun Wei has filled me in with what I needed to know."
"He did," he sighed.
"Don't blame him," Li Lian responded, "I was the one who asked him to tell me everything."
The Old Master gave a little chuckle, "Silly you, How can I ever blame him? I could tell he did it all for your sake. I also didn't tell him to keep quiet unless you ask." he replied.
"You did?" she asked.
"Yes and he had fulfilled his promise well. I have no distrust against him. When I trusted you to him I knew he would be the best person who think well of you and my old eyes was not wrong."
With his words, Li Lian felt happy with her grandfather's words. She didn't want her grandfather to get angry to Li Jun Wei who had told him the informations regarding the new term made by the Akasaka Group. Perhaps her grandfather didn't wanted to keep her in the dark, however he wanted to keep Li Lian off from the matters of the underworld as he want to keep her clean under the sun not in a place where people's life flew off each second without a care.
"You didn't choose wrong." she smiled, her eyes saw into his black eyes and the two shared a glance when Li Lian smiled for him to reply with a smile.
The Old Master then said, "I don't want to choose wrong. For you I want to choose a man that prioritize you over anything and love you more than his life. However," his eyes narrowed, the voice coming a little deep. "I have to apologize to you. Forgive me."
"What? Don't apologize grandfather!" Li Lian hurried holding the phone tight. "I knew that you meant to protect me by sending me to China, I know that you were thinking all for my best and the sake of my safety."
"No, it isn't about that, I want to apologize for agreeing to the marriage one sidedly. Even if I had done it for your sake, it didn't change the fact that I have consent you on a marriage when you was not conscious." When the old Master received the new term and the conditions the Son of Akasaka group, his gut was telling him that it wasn't a normal arrange marriage between a family and a clan.
In the first place, it was weird of how Akasaka Harumi, the only successor to Akasaka Family asked for Li Lian's hand in marriage as if she was an important piece in the chess for a large plan to move out. However, be it a gut feeling or not or to protect her, he knew it was not a right choice for him to marry his granddaughter who was in a vegetative state.